Hand seed planter



Oct. 30, 1928.

F. W. ERICKSON HAND SEED PLANTER Original Filed Nov.-16 1922 '2 Shuts-Sheet F. w. ERICKSON HAND SEED PLANTER Original Filed Nov. 16. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet {9&1343703 MM Patented Oct. 30. 1928.

PATENT OFFICE.

FREDRICK W. EBICKSON, F AURORA, ILLINOIS.

HAND SEED PLANTER.

if Application filed November 16, 1922, Serial No. 601,254. Renewed April 2, 1928.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple and highly etlicient hand seed planter, and to this end it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illusstrate the invention, like characters lndicate like parts throughoutthe several views.

Referring to the drawings: i

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the improved hand seed planter;

Fig. 2 is a plan view, on an enlarged scale, with some parts sectioned on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a view partly 1n side elevatlon and partly in longitudinal central section, taken on. the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary detail view, with some parts sectioned on the line l- 1 of Fig. 3 r

2 Fig. 5 is a detail view with some parts sectioned on the line 5-5 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the hand seed planter with the top plate and seed magazlne removed;

Fig. 7 is a perspective view ofthe top plate and seed magazine; and

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the secondary furrow cover.

The numeral 10 indicates a rearwardly 1nclined seed delivery spout in the form of a tube, the lower end of which is beveled in sub-- stantially a vertical plane and affords a furrow opener 11, to which is rigidly secured a depending combined furrow breaker and guide blade 12. At its upper end, the seed delivery spout 10 is beveled 1n substantlally a horizontal plane and is closed by a bottom plate 13, except for an aperture 1d therein. This bottom plate 13 extends both forward and rearward of the upper end of the seed delivery tube 10 and has formed with its forward end a primary seed covering device or furrow closer in the form of a pair of forwardly and laterally inclined win gs or blades 15 between which the furrow opener extends. Said bottom plate 13 is rigidly secured to the seeddelivery spout 10 by a nut-equippcd bolt 16 and a rivet 17. This bolt 16 extends completely through the seed delivery spout 10,

and a strap 18 is cut and pressed from the bottom plate 13 and bears upon the upper surface of said spout. In cutting and pressing the strap 18 from the bottom plate 13, there is formed therein a slot 19 which is forward of the seed aperture 14 and longitudinally ali gned therewith.

A top plate 20 is supported on the bottom plate 13 and is pivoted thereto, at its rear end portion for manually operated transverse oscillatory movement, by a knurled thumb screw 21 having a nut 22. Rigidly secured to the top plate 20, forward of its pivot 21, is a main seed magazine 23 in the form of a tube, the axis of which is parallel to the axis of the seed delivery spout 10 and forms an extension thereon. This seed magazine also affords a handle by which the planter may be held and operated.

The thumb screw 21 is anchored to the bottom plate 13 by inserting the samethrough a boretherein with freedom for a limited end wise movement. The threaded end portion of the thumb screw 21 is reduced to afford a shoulder27, and said reduced portion of the thumb screw inserted through a longitudinal slot in the top plate 20 rearward of the magazine 23. By tightening the nut 22 on the thumb screw 21, the top plate 20 may be frictionally clamped between said nut and the shoulder 27 to connect said top plate to the bottom plate 13 in different longitudinal adjustments thereon. In Fig. 3 the nut 22 and shoulder 27 are shown released from the top plate 20 to permit longitudinal adjustment of said top plate on the bottom plate 13.

A bowed spring 28 is interposed between a shoulder 29 on the thumb screw 21 and the bottom plate 18, and is secured to said screw by forming a bore in the intermediate portion thereof and inserting said screw therethrough. The ends of the spring 28 bear upon the bottom. plate 13, and the intermediate portion of said spring reacts against the shoulder 29 as a base of resistance. The purpose of this spring 28 is to frictionally hold the top plate 20 onto the bottomplate 13 but with suficient freedom to permit the top plate 20 to be oscillated on the pivot acting thumb screw 21. To prevent the spring 28 from turning on the bottom plate which seed is discharged from the seed magazine into the combined furrow opener and seed delivery spout.

2. The structure defined in claim 1 in further combination with means whereby one of said plates may be adjusted longitudinally on the other at their pivotal connection to vary the size of said port.

3. The structure defined in claim 1. in further combination with a seed covering device on the upper plate to partake of its transverse oscillatory movements.

4. The structure defined in claim 1 in further combination with yielding means pressing the two plates together.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

FREDRIOK W. ERICKSON. 

